Irrigation Systems Management Pro1ect Design Report, Sri Lanka
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IRRIGATION SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT PRO1ECT DESIGN REPORT, SRI LANKA Submitted to United States Agency for International Development: Mission to Sri Lanka and Ministry of Lands and Land Development Government of Sri Lanka Prepared by Gaylord V. Skogerboe, Team Leader Utah State University (irrigation operations and maintenance engineer) Jeffrey D. Brewer F. Bruce Brown Cornell UnIversity Harza Enginoering Company (social scientist) (financial analyst) Alan C. Early Richard J. McConnen Colorado State University Montana State Un1versity (water management specialist) (agricultural economist) Editors: Darlene Fowler and Cheryl Henderson Water Management Synthesis Project University Services Center Colorado State University Fort Coilins, 00 80523 in cooperation with the Consortium for International Development December 1984 / We would like to acknowledge Mary Llndburg and Sandy Wunchp whose skills greatly helped to speed production of this report. ii IRRIGATION SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT PROJECT TABLE OF CONTENTS Section Ig Table of C n e t . .. ... , , l List of Tables ................ ,........ .................. vi List of Figures ..................................................... ix Executive Summary .................................... ,6**....... xi I. Project Rationale ........................................ I II. Project Description ........... .... 5 A. Emphasizing Irrigation Management.................... 5 B. Project O t................. .. ............... 6 C. Status of the End of the Project........ ,,.......... 8 D. Project Elements ........ ....... ..... .......O 10 III. Financial Plan and Analysis...... ........................ 37 A. Financial Plhn....... ............................... 37 B. Financial Analysis ..... ... ............... , .... 37 IV. Implementation Pian......... .. 0........... ....... ...... 45 A. Implementation Schedule ............... oo..........o..... 45 B. Pro-Project Activities ....,........................... 45 C. Project Activ................. ................... 58 V. Procurement Plan....................... ............. 61 A. Procuremont Responsibilities, ....................... 61 B. Commodity List.... ..................... ...... 61 C. Source of Procurenents............................. 62 D. Method of Procurmept...... ... o... ...... ........ 65 E. Payment .... ....... ......... ............ 66 F o Del ivery .................. ..... .. ... .. .. o.. ...... 67 G. Marking .................. .............. ........ 67 Ho Receipt and Utilization...... ...................... 67 I. Procurement Schedue. .......................... ... 67 VI. Techrical Ana ysis ................... ............ 69 A. Choice of Sites...................................... 71 B. Farmers' Organizations.. .......... ... ... ...... 72 C. Operations andaintenance......................... 78 iii Table of Contents (continued) D. Financimi1 Management .... ................... 60449466600 83 E. M*onitoving, Evaluation and Feedback Capability F. Training Enhancement ............................ e 90 G. Research ...... c.................. 94 4... H. Equipment and Facilities...e....................... 95 I. Technical Assistance ........... ....... .... 96 VII. Economic Analysis gg......... 101 A. Summary Conclusions ................. e ........ e... 101 B. Economic Analysis of Increased Productivity on Project Sites.c.... ee.......................... 102 C. Intangible Benefits........................... ...... 121 VIII., Social Soundness Analysis................................ 125 A. Introdu-tion ............. g.... .. ..... 125 B. 1e Population of the Scheme......................s . 125 C. Distribution of Bnefts.................... 129 D. Participation byOfficers........................... 130 E. Farmer Participation .............................. 132 F. Impact on Domestic Water Supplias ..................... 133 G. Impact on Women ..... , ................... 134 H. The Long Range Impact: Participatory Development.... 134 IX. Administrative Analysis, .. e....... gee..co....... 137 A. Introduction ......................................... 137 B, ISM Project Administration ......... ..... ,..o .... 138 X. Technical Assistance Reference........................... 151 A. Introduction ....................... ......... 151 B. Scope of Work for Consultant Team ........... C.... 151 C. Estimated Level of Effort ........... ............. 153 D. Logistic Support andCost ............. .. .. 155 E. Implementation Plan for Irrigation Systems Management Project............... c... ............... 157 XI. Glossary ................................. ge..e............... 159 A Acronyms...... , .............. g. .... 159 B. Ters . , ...... , .... 159 iv Table of Contents (continued) Section XII. Annexes A. Programme for Integrated Management of Major Irrigation Schemes (INMAS) B Improving Irrigation Management Through Farmer Organization C. Project Cost Estimates D. Representative Farm Budget and Production Inputs E. Action Plan for Training Development and Improvement F. Rcsearch Guidelines: Applied and Policy Issues to Support the ISM Project G. Logical Framework H. Long-Term Irrigation System Investigations: Polonnaruwa District I. Operations and Maintenance Learning Process J. Monitoring, Evaluation and Feedback Systems: Tools for Improved Project Management and Irrigation System Management K. Daily Schedule of ISM Project Design Team L. Determining the Impact of Alternative Incentives on O&M and Water Use V LIST OF TABLES Table 1. Summary of operations and maintenance outputs .............. 12 2. Summary of monitoring, evaluation and feedback outputs for the Irrigation Management Division and the Irrigation Department.. ... .. ..... ....... .. • . ......... 15i.. 3. Summary of monitoring, evaluation and feedback inputs from the ISM Project to the Irrigation Management Division and the Irrigation Department. ...... ........................ 16 4. Training summary of courses to be conducted annually within the Ministry of Lands and Land Development.................. 17 5. Training summary of courses conducted annually on contract.. 19 6. Project 23............................................... 23 7. Summary of project activities............................... 36 8. Summary cost estimate and financial plan .................... 38 9. Percent expenditure of ISM Project funds by year ........... 39 10. Summary budget for three-acre farm......................... 40 11. Annual budgets for the MLLD and the Irrigation Department from 1982 to 1984 (millions of Rs.)....................... 41 12. Major irrigation projects in the 1984 Irrigation Department budget..... ...... ...... ... ... ... .. ... ... .. ... .. 42 13. 1985 budget requests by the MLLD, the ID, and the IMD (millions of Rs.) . ......... ...... 43 14. Pre-project activities ..................................... 46 15. ISM Project activities ................ o........... 0..00.... 48 16. Summary of commodity costs by coponent..................... 62 17. Procurement List ... 00...0...... 0.0...0.00.0 .............063 vi List of Tables (continued) Table 18. Suggested fielding schedule for IOs (excluding Gal Oya Left Ba nk). .. ... ..... 0a0000000. ... .. ...a0a0a06aa . .. ..... 7 7 19. Irrigation scheme and program performance indicators......,* 89 20. Technical assistance team members and their time commitment. 97 21. Base acreage for four schemes at Polonnaruwa ................ 104 22. Acreage, yield and production of paddy for Parakrama Samudra, Minneriya, Giritale, and Kaudulla fnr the base proj ect. ....... ...... ... ..* a a ... e a * e e e* a * *a.a a a e . *. 105 23. Paddy production in Polonnaruwa without ISM Project......... 106 24. Paddy production in Polonnaruwa M= ISM Project ............ 107 25. Impact of the ISM Project on paddy production and gross benefits Polonnaruwa ........................................ 109 26. Polonnaruwa capital and non-capital ISM Project Costs ....... 110 27. Added economic value of paddy production cost......°........ 111 28. Incremental net benefits of the ISM Project................. 112 29. Paddy production in Gal Oya Right Bank without ISM Project.. 114 30. Paddy production in Gal Oya Right Bank X.1h ISM Project ..... 115 31. Impact of the LSM Project on paddy production and gross benefit# Gal Oya Right Bank .............................. 116 32. Gal Oya Right Bank capital and non-capital project costs on the ISM Project ...................... .......... 117 33. Added economic value of paddy production cost, Gal Oya Right Bank ......... ....................... 118 34. Incremental net benefits of the ISM Project, Gal Oya Right Bank ........................................................ 119 35. Schedule of ISM Project costs .............. ............ 120 36. Increased yields to meet selected opportunity costs of capital ....... v......................... .... 121 vii List of Tables (continued) TablE 37. Population of irrigation schemes..... ....................... 126 38. Ethnic ommunities .................. ............ ....... 128 39. Median monthly incomes byzones............................. 129 40. IMD additional staffing required ............................ 143 41. Irrigation Department field organization.................... 145 42. Irrigation Department additional required staff ............. 147 43. Long-term technical assistance . ......................... 149 44. Estimated level of effort for long-term consultants ......... 154 45. Estimated level of effort for short-term consultants..... 155 46. Technical assistance requirements